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Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 2

Author
Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
46 pages
ISBN
9781911144991
Published
15 January 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
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  • mindfulness
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  • characters
  • familiar
  • mysterious
  • doors
  • inspiration
  • friendship

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Description

Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov share a volume that stings as it shines. Wilde’s Star-Child is pride taught a hard lesson; The Happy Prince is a statue and a swallow spending themselves on a city that will not look up. Chekhov’s About Love is quieter and no kinder: how a feeling arrives, and what it costs to keep. Familiar doors, unsentimental rooms — stories for grown appetite, not nursery comfort. Wilde’s glitter has a cut in it; Chekhov’s disaster stays ordinary. Tales that grow up without losing their nerve.

Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, took a double first at Magdalen College, Oxford, and made conversation a form of literature. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the one novel — beauty, bargain, and a portrait that keeps the score. The Importance of Being Earnest is the comedy in which nothing is earnest except the jokes. Prison and exile followed the trials. Style was an ethic. Scandal became a second plot.

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